Two Dallas couples have pledged $250,000 to the Texas A&M Foundation as lead gifts for the Quadrangle Renovation Project Fund to benefit the Corps of Cadets.

The 6-4, 220-pound former Texas A&M quarterback was the first-round pick of the Miami Dolphins.

Five Texas A&M University faculty members have been appointed as university distinguished professors, effective September 1.

A thin polymer coating developed by materials engineers at Texas A&M University could keep cotton clothing and polyurethane-foam-based furniture from going up in flames.

The gift is the largest to date in a $20 million campaign, and names the grand ballroom the Debbie ’76 and John’74 Bethancourt Family Ballroom.

Rededicated in memory of the more than 1,100 Aggies who lost their lives in military service to their country, the Memorial Student Center at Texas A&M University was reopened Saturday, April 21.

Rafael A. Ledesma Schoowe, an agricultural leader from the Dominican Republic who holds three degrees from Texas A&M University, has been named the university’s Outstanding International Alumnus for 2012.

Texas A&M University has presented the 2012 Eppright Award honoring an international student and the Bush Excellence Awards for international teaching, international research and public service.

Texas A&M has entered into a partnership with the Posse Foundation, an organization that identifies, recruits and trains urban youth with exceptional leadership and academic potential.

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